In attendance of major general and minister Ashraf Gharib Aldawoodi, governor of Qena, , head of the Holding Company for drinking water and sewage, Eng. Mamdouh Raslan and, head of board of directors of the drinking and sewage water station in Qena, brigadier Eng. Mohamed Galal Abdel Fatah, AFNCI celebrated the opening of water treatment station in Qena. The opening was also attended by a big number of media representatives who transmitted the event live through media channels.

The mobile drinking water station (Alzahnat station) produces 30 liter per second and serves the villages of Abu Diab east and west and 22 hamlets with 65 thousand beneficiaries according to latest estimation of the water company. Villagers expressed their happiness with the water station and thanked the efforts that contributed to offering them a decent living and ended their suffering to obtain clean drinking water.

 It is  noteworthy that AFNCI covered the cost of establishing the water treatment station which reached 20 million pounds, as a proactive step to protect against diseases and for its belief in its role of fighting pollution sources to contribute to eliminating the cancer of poverty, ignorance and disease.

Within the framework of cooperation among civil society organizations to reinforce the concept of involving civil society in development projects, Soqia Almaa organization exerted many efforts to complete the connection from the station to the Nile river for a cost of 6 million pounds (ejection line of 4 kilometers long and a diameter of 8 inches). This cooperation boosts the idea of the participation of  civil society in development projects.

Thanks to AFNCI’s faithful supporters, we are cooperating with state institutions to achieve projects that will offer a decent living to the neediest villages in upper Egypt.